Wednesday, December 23, 2015
In the haggard, pre-Christmas weeks after the Paris climate negotiati…
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In the haggard, pre-Christmas weeks after the Paris climate negotiati…
Continue readingResearch done for the Pacific Peoples Partnership, Victoria BC Vulnerability in the South Pacific Islands The South Pacific Islands are one of the most vulnerable areas in the world to the effects of climate change. The risks are not a matter of inconvenience, but a matter of survival. Failure of food systems, drinking water contaminated […]
Continue readingDeveloped in the late 60’s by British Scientist James Lovelock, the Gaia theory states that the organic and inorganic components of Planet Earth have evolved together as a single living, self-regulating system. It suggests that this living system has a…
Continue readingThis and that for your Thursday reading.- Duncan Cameron offers his take on the Paris climate change conference. Martin Lukacs notes that while the agreement reached there may not accomplish anywhere near what we need, the building climate movement sho…
Continue readingWe’ll know, I think, by 2025 when it’s too late to do anything about the past 10 years. I’m cautiously optimistic that it’s an agreement that will provide a better push than Kyoto or Copenhagen ever had a chance to do. It’s probably aiming somewhere beneath a complete success (which we obviously need to preserve […]
Continue readingElizabeth May calls the recent Paris climate deal “a masterful balancing act” between the ideal and practical. Ray Grigg on the imperfect, yet laudable and achievable agreement.
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Continue readingYou can either lose your mind and your perspective: It’s not your imagination — gasoline prices in Canada should be a lot lower than they are right now. That’s according to Benjamin Reitzes, an economist at Bank of Montreal, who said the price Canadians pay at the pump should be a lot lower than it […]
Continue readingLast night I partially watched Republican debate. They strictly concentrated on ISIS. One of Huckabee’s statement was amazing. He said that U.S. has the highest reserve of coal, oil and gas in the world. He said ” let’s produce these fuels and export t…
Continue readingThis and that for your Tuesday reading.- Matthew Yglesias rightly points out the absurdity of monetary policy designed to rein in at-target inflation at the expense of desperately-needed employment. And Joseph Stiglitz reminds us that we can instead …
Continue readingMonday, December 14, 2015
An agreement has been reached in Paris, and myself and West Coast’…
Continue readingThis and that for your Sunday reading.- Joseph Stiglitz writes that inequality is killing the American middle class. And Crawford Kilian examines the direct connection between inequality and midlife mortality:For some white Americans born between 1961 …
Continue readingSo did we save the planet? From the outset, this was never about “saving the planet.” Our spinning hunk of rock has been around billions of years and will continue to support diverse life forms long past the time humans roam it. The question is whether we have a planet that can support human life […]
Continue readingFriday, December 11, 2015
The following is a guest post by John Bonine, a colleague and friend to West Coast Environmental Law. He wrote it as a personal ob…
Continue readingLast week, I interviewed Oscar Reyes on the background to and likely outcomes of the climate talks in Paris just wrapping up. His answers were prescient as the talks look set to deliver a decidedly insufficient agreement, one that locks in more warming shrouded in lofty rhetoric. This interview gives context to the talks and the […]
Continue readingFriday, December 11, 2015
As a lawyer I’m supposed to be able to give a pundit’s opini…
Continue readingMiscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Robert Reich suggests that government should respond to corporations who engage in anti-social activity such as moving their earnings offshore by making sure they can’t simultaneously take advantage of…
Continue readingThis and that for your Tuesday reading.- David MacDonald offers some alternative suggestions that can do far more to reduce inequality and boost Canada’s economy than the Libs’ upper-class tax shuffle. And Karl Nerenberg reminds us that the most import…
Continue readingSo it has been another few months of above average temperatures. Focus has been on COP21 and what politicians hopewill be the deal that saves the Earth. Now while a fair amount of ire has been directed at climate change deniers theymay not represent the greatest obstacle to fixing CO2 levels.Consider this scenario: Its December and the average should be 0 degrees Celsius. Now what if the temperature was anice 15 degrees all month. What would be the response from the average Canadian? My mon […]
Continue reading.@KentThornhillMP @PremierBradWall The media isn't quiet on @SaskPowerCCS. @mikemckinnon would you care to fill in the former Minister? — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) December 7, 2015 In the @SaskPowerCCS control room. Some stuff happening, presumably. pic.twitter.com/XKNaXbceN3 — Mike McKinnon (@mikemckinnon) December 7, 2015 One of my fondest memories in politics is when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau […]
Continue readingIt might sound odd, but if we react to disasters before they happen we can save lives. The Food Security Climate Resilience Facility wants developed nations to release support for impending disasters before they happen. How do we know when disasters will happen when they seem so unpredictable? We can’t foresee all disasters but some […]
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